Landis was actually incredibly humble about everything. He wanted to take the script one place and they didn't want to do that. It seems that Max's dad, John Landis let the chain of events spill when he spoke about the trouble last Fall: “He wrote a sequel, and it’s amazing, and the studio read it and said, ‘We want ‘Chronicle’ again!’ And he said, ‘No, this is the sequel, it’s the evolution, and they said ‘No, we want that movie again!’ So it’s difficult, we’re dealing with a difficult business." After hearing about the remarks, Max Landis said that it was not his Father's place to talk about what had went on between his son and Fox.

I'd like to know what Landis had in store for a sequel but turns out we'll never know. Wonder who they got to replace him, and what the studio thought would be a good follow-up.